u/Trashlify

Is there a scam going around for Ecocash? What to do with this money?

It seems simple enough and the from the charts it looks like it could work but then again, he might only be showing the charts that suit his narrative. Would love to know if someone has tried it and what the results were.

In the US we have something called the Kevin Bacon index. It tells you how many loops you have to jump through to get to Kevin Bacon.

How many people do you have to call to get to Wicknell? Everyone your contact has to hand off to counts as one until we get to Wicknell.

I’m building a local historical dataset for SPY/0DTE backtesting using Alpaca, and I ran into a strange hole in their historical IEX stock data.

For SPY on March 10, 2025, querying 1-minute bars with:

• feed=iex
• timeframe=1Min
• regular market session
• SPY

returns zero bars. I initially found it because my backtester stopped with:

RuntimeError: Only 0 SPY minute bars for 2025-03-10

I then specifically retried that session and got the same result. What makes it interesting is that when I request the same date using the historical SIP feed instead, I get:

390 regular-session bars

The options history for that same day also exists. My downloader retrieved:

100 contracts, 9,642 option minute bars

So effectively:

SPY 2025-03-10 IEX -> 0 bars

SPY 2025-03-10 SIP -> 390 bars

SPY 0DTE options -> data exists

The surrounding IEX trading days are populated normally as well. Has anyone else encountered missing historical IEX sessions like this with Alpaca?

I’m mainly trying to figure out whether this is:

• a known hole in Alpaca’s historical IEX dataset,
• something specific to IEX’s underlying historical data,
• an Alpaca API/data-processing issue,
• or some edge case I’m overlooking.

For now I’ve implemented a very narrow fallback where I use SIP only if an entire historical IEX session is missing, and record the source feed so the backtest remains auditable.

Curious if anyone has seen the same thing even for other days.

I want to be a lender, looking to hear from current lenders.

I want to book them, just for fun, next time I come home next month. Like, a whole performance with drums and outfits and everything. I want to see the look on family's faces wondering wtf is going on. I saw them a few months back when i was leaving, I think they were greeting a team or something. And I was like, 'hmm... what if i got myself such'

Will boost back immediately . $chirau

3.55pm EST, 7/29/2026

Ticker	Current Price	Confidence	Entry Zone Low	Entry Zone High	Stop Loss	Target (Base/Median)	Target (Stretch/p75)	Hold Until
DAVE	378.34	75.5	378.34	385.91	310.47	492.88	688.12	Sept 23
CORT	92.75	79.9	92.75	94.6	81.42	102.56	126.7	Sept 16

My setup

Ticker	Current Price	Confidence	Entry Zone Low	Entry Zone High	Stop Loss	Target (Base/Median)	Target (Stretch/p75)	Hold Until
KLC	4.93	74.9	4.93	5.03	4.34	6.42	8.97	2026-09-18

Options

KLC $5.00 Call Aug 21 ($0.58)

Reasoning.

Strong operational recovery from its $1.75 low to ~$5.00, catalyzed by heavy insider buying, a Q1 2026 earnings beat, and raised guidance. CEO John T. Wyatt bought nearly 500,000 shares at $1.96–$2.07 in March, followed by Director Michael Nuzzo purchasing 25,000 shares at $2.22. On May, KLC crushed expectations with an adjusted EPS of $0.04 versus a -$0.01 consensus estimate ( 500% beat). $4.2 million in adjusted net income on $672.5 million in revenue. full-year 2026 guidance raise to an adjusted EPS of $0.15–$0.25 on $2.70B–$2.75B in revenue. BMO Capital Markets raised its price target from $4 to $6 (assigning an outperform rating) and UBS increased its target from $3 to $5. Q2 institutional accumulation, with Invesco Ltd. expanding its position by 48.0% and Legal & General Group raising its stake by 20.2%.

Please let me know price, arable land portion, best usage, location, and current ownership structure. Cash upfront.

Hear me out for a bit.

I’ve been thinking about the USMNT’s scheduling, especially how hard it is to get meaningful games against top-tier non-CONCACAF competition now that UEFA has locked up its schedule with the Nations League.

I think the US team should play African teams much more often. Honestly, I’d love to see something like a biennial tournament.

African teams might not consistently win World Cups, but they are some of the most engaging and challenging matchups for traditional powerhouses from Europe and South America. They play with immense physicality, pace, and technical skill. Playing them regularly would harden our national team in ways CONCACAF rarely does. Imagine if we played Senegal, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Egypt and all the upcomers often. These are the same countries that feed European top leagues now.

Our problem right now is the big countries don't take us too seriously. If we manage to schedule a European giant for a friendly, there's a high chance they will rotate heavily and give us a B-team. Not the Africans. Football is life there. Playing the US is a global showcase for them and they will bring their best and give a good run for their money to anyone on the pitch. I know this is an unpopular opinion but right now in the world, Africans are playing some of the most exciting football in the world.

Then there is the fan/network effect. African fans are some of the biggest proponents and drivers of world football fandom. They might not always have the highest disposable income, but their contribution to the love, passion, and growth of the game is immeasurable. Once they get engaged with you, they lock in. Building a cultural and sporting bridge with that fanbase would be huge for the US.

Lastly, scouting. A regular pipeline of high-level matches against CAF teams would be a massive boost for MLS and domestic scouting. A lot of incredible raw talent is bred on the continent, and exposing our domestic league structure to that talent pool directly would be a win-win.

Last week, on Music Pulse podcast, Nota Baloyi went on a viral rant talking about artists taking Zim gigs. He was saying there should be no business with Zimbabwe at all and artists should stay away from Zim.

In this week's episode, when Sifiso jokingly presses him saying "Zimbabweans are looking for you." Nota goes on to brag about how he has gigs and work in Zimbabwe right now.

I, for one, find this highly hypocritical.

I have a few questions for folks running tuckshops or who just have knowledge of them. I am doing a data project on logistics for FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).

1. I need a list of all the items a typical tuckshop would carry. (If you are an owner/operator, would you be willing to give me a full spreadsheet of your inventory, I can pay you for it)

2. What is the typical phone an average tuckshop owner would have?

3. For your fastest moving goods, how often do you replenish them ( i.e., what are they and how often do you 'hoard' them?)

4. What wholesalers do you use and for what products?

5. What products do you offer but do not buy from wholesalers? Where do you source them?

6. What is your average markup (%) on a product? If it varies, what is the highest and the lowest?

7. Are there any suppliers that deliver to your tuckshop and if so, what do they deliver and how often can they deliver?

8. How do you track your inventory currently? As in how you keep records of the quantities purchased, quantities left etc. and how often do you update it?

9. How do you pick new products to add to your offerings?

10. Do you ever offer deals or specials? If so, on what and how often? Also, examples of these offers would be nice.

Thank you. Feel free to answer in the comments or if you want you can email me at hararean@duck.com especially if you have an inventory sheet and would like to be compensated for a few more specific questions.

For the minute by minute bars data, columns are:

"symbol", "timestamp", "open", "high", "low", "close", "volume", "vwap", "trade_count", "spy_close", "iv", "delta", "gamma", "theta", "vega", "rho"

For tick_by_tick (all individual trades executed) columns are:

"symbol", "timestamp", "price", "size", "exchange", "conditions", "spy_close", "iv", "delta", "gamma", "theta", "vega", "rho"

It goes back a few years, depending on the ticker.

I have been down really bad the last month due to some unforeseen circumstances in the family. I ended up having to sell my computer just to cover costs. So i recently got a contract offer from Mercor (the AI company), it is a good contract that will get me back on my footing but the problem is i have to start the work by Friday the 10th otherwise the offer expires. I don't have a computer. That is the problem, i can't afford one at the moment so it is a vicious cycle. I found someone selling a second hand laptop on Marketplace but I am $63 short. I managed to negotiate with the person all the way down to$120, i only have $57. The ones cheaper than that are either too old or not powerful enough to power the programs i need to install to complete the work. If I can get $63, I would be able to buy the computer and start work by Friday. The work offer expires on Friday and I really cannot afford to lose it otherwise I will be back broke for a long time. The contracts are not easy to get. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT/UPDATE:
I have since received $10 from u/posienotrosie (thank you so much), so I am still about 53 short.

UPDATE: Friday 7/10
I have received the rest ($53) from u/dr3rdeye . Thank you so much!